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Researchers will continue monitoring Saturn to see whether the southern decagon becomes a stable, long-lived feature like the northern hexagon or keeps changing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

Down the side of the ring, there are personalized touches, with each team member’s last name and number displayed around a hexagon shape inspired by Dodger Stadium’s unique scoreboards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025

Winds whip around this hexagon at 300 miles per hour, but why the region forms the shape is a mystery.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2024

The French sometimes refer to their country as “L’Hexagone” — the hexagon — because of its shape.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

At lunch and after school they often gathered at a wooden table in the hallway that people called the hex table, even though, as Ian pointed out, it was an octagon, not a hexagon.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

The scoreboards in Ontario, he said, are planned as hexagons — just like the ones at Dodger Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2024

For instance, hexagons appear frequently in nature -- think honeycombs and insect eyes -- because they are stable and require the least amount of material to cover a surface.

From Science Daily ● May 16, 2024

Ridges of radiating lines that are designed to reflect light, a nod to Paris’ nickname as the City of Light, surround the hexagons.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

At the Richmond, California, plant of the company Coherent, an assembly line is polishing three 1.5-meter mirrors each month before trimming them into hexagons.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 17, 2023

And about how the only shapes that one can use to tile a floor, if all the tiles are the same, are triangles, squares and hexagons.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton